Dennis Kucinich: ‘I Support Trump’s Claims Of Wiretapping, It Happened To Me Too’

Former Democratic Representative from Ohio, now Fox News correspondent, recently stated that he supports Trump’s claims of wiretapping, as he himself was also wiretapped when he was in the House of Representatives.

Kucinich had proof that it happened at the time as the Washington Times were able to obtain the recordings that were secretly taken of his wiretapped office. Kucinich wasn’t made aware of these recordings until two years after he left office.

It was made aware to Kucinich that the wiretapping was legal, and it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to think if wiretapping an official of the United States was legal, then wiretapping a United States citizen running for President would also be legal.

President Trump’s assertion that his phones at Trump Tower were tapped last year has been treated as hilarious—and in some circles as beyond contempt. But I can vouch for the fact that extracurricular surveillance does occur, regardless of whether it is officially approved. I was wiretapped in 2011 after taking a phone call in my congressional office from a foreign leader.

That a secret recording had been made of this call was revealed to me by the Washington Times in 2015, a full two years after I left office.

The newspaper’s investigative reporters called me, saying they had obtained a tape of a sensitive telephone conversation that they wanted me to verify.

When I met them at a Chinese restaurant in Washington, they played back audio of a call I had taken in my D.C. congressional office four years earlier.

The call had been from Saif el-Islam Qaddafi, a high-ranking official in Libya’s government and a son of the country’s ruler, Moammar Qaddafi.

At the time I was leading efforts in the House to challenge the Obama administration’s war against Libya. The Qaddafi government reached out to me because its appeals to the White House and the State Department to forestall the escalating aggression had gone unanswered.

Before taking the call, I checked with the House’s general counsel to ensure that such a discussion by a member of Congress with a foreign power was permitted by law.

I was assured that under the Constitution a lawmaker had a fundamental duty to ask questions and gather information—activity expressly protected by the Article I clauses covering separation of powers and congressional speech and debate. I could and did ask questions of the younger Mr. Qaddafi.